Tile Assembler not respecting RE local enable/disable

Deadline
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Hi,
Minor issue that needs tweaking…
After the recent code change to ensure Render Elements individual enable/disable setting is respected as well as the global RE enable/disable function, we have just realised that when submitting a tile based render job with “submit dependent tile assembler jobs” setting enabled, that the “tile assembler” submitting code isn’t presently respecting the RE local setting, but does respect the global setting. As a result for each render element, a dependent tile assembler job is submitted which although disabled locally, is still enabled globally as some of the RE’s are still being used, resulting in some assembler jobs failing, due to non-existent frames or worse still, overwriting good RE’s…!!
Thanks,
Mike

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Thanks for reporting this! We’ve logged it as a bug.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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FYI.
A slight update on this issue, which may be causing additional trouble…
When you using VRay as the renderer with RE’s + the VRay VFB, a pop-up is displayed if you try to check/un-check the individual RE’s.
Looks like Chaos Group are ignoring/doing something funky internally in the background with RE’s when used in conjunction with the VRay VFB.
Needs investigating further (I think one of guys will be looking at this tomorrow to run a few tests…)
Mike

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Hey Mike,

Does this problem (Tile Assembler not respecting RE local enable/disable) only happen when using the VRay VFB and VRay’s render elements? I tried to reproduce this problem with the normal Max render elements and it worked fine. I double checked the tile code, and it’s explicitly checking if each RE is enable before submitting an assembly job for it.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Hi Ryan,
You’re right. I’m pretty sure this whole issue is tied up with how VRay handles RE’s when saving out to an EXR for example.
ie: The actual RE’s are rendered to VRay’s bespoke frame buffer and then ‘compiled’ into a multi-channel EXR.
This issue is in effect, the same as my other forum post regarding tile assembler supporting multi-channel EXR’s coming from VRay:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4408
Mike